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FuXML – A Content Authoring System

FuXML – A Content Authoring System. Dipl.-Ing. Gerd Steinkamp. Seminar on Advanced Technology for Lifelong Open and Flexible Learning - Educational Research and Technology (ER&T). Hagen, 05-27-2005. Overview. Problem description Requirements Solution Typical workflow Example

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FuXML – A Content Authoring System

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  1. FuXML – A Content Authoring System Dipl.-Ing. Gerd Steinkamp Seminar on Advanced Technology for Lifelong Open and Flexible Learning- Educational Research and Technology (ER&T) Hagen, 05-27-2005

  2. Overview • Problem description • Requirements • Solution • Typical workflow • Example • Prospective developments and current state

  3. Current Distance Teaching Approach • Printed course material • Consists of course text, appendices, assignments, solutions • Structured into course units • Shipment by traditional mail • On campus events • Seminars, tutorials, labs, etc. • Multimedia • Videos, audio tapes, TV broadcast (WDR) • CDROMs (CBT) • Elearning • „Virtual University“ • Hypermedia

  4. Lessons Learned in the „Virtual University“ • Production of high quality hypermedia courses • is expensive and • requires a team of specially skilled people • Students demand a printed version of a course

  5. Solution • A Learning Content Management System, that • can be operated with existing personal and financial ressources • fits within the IT-infrastructure of the university • is oriented at the special requirements of content creation and management at the FernUniversität

  6. Requirements (I) • Simplification and standardisation • Reduction of technical overhead • Separation of contents and design • Cross-media-publishing • high quality print version (primary medium!) • High flexibility • but economical (1600 courses!)

  7. Requirements (II) • Support of academic contents • Numbering • Bibliographies • Footnotes, marginal notes • Mathematical expressions • Didactical structuring • Two layers • Logical content layer (Chapter, Section) • Time layer (course units) • Assignments

  8. Make or Buy? • Several commercial products available • Do these products fulfil the requirements of the FernUniversität? • No! • Furthermore: • Purchase of a product is not enough • Solution is an evolving and ongoing process • Conclusion: own development • FuXML • Project team • ZFE (Requirements, application experts) • LGPI (Databases, CMS) • LGKS (XML Publishing)

  9. Media-Concept • Evolution of existing courses • Online digital course • Didactical markup • Learning objective, prerequisites, example, exercise, hint, note, comment, etc. • Linking of contents. • Utilisation of catalogues • Index, glossary, list of abbriviations, etc. • Integration of multimedia elements • Animations, videos, simulations,etc. • Technical basis: XML

  10. FuXML Documents • Mapping of the existing course structure • course unit, assignment, prerequisite, learning objective • Editorial elements • Paragraphs, sections • Also visual markup (bold, italic) • Didactical elements • example, hint, exercise • Faculty-specific elements • e. g. law (case, adjudication), mathematics (theorem, proof, etc.) • Mathematical expressions • LaTeX syntax • Diverse media objects • Images, animations, applets, videos, audio • Support of modular contents

  11. System Overview

  12. XML Editor (XMetaL)

  13. Web Folder

  14. Web Interface

  15. LMS Cross-Media-Publishing Print  Online  Content techn.Production CD-ROM

  16. Production Component config.xml template.html styles.css Design Interface PDF HTML Rule-based Rendering Engine

  17. Example: Multimediaobject in XML Editor

  18. Example: Multimedia Object in Browser

  19. Example: Multimedia Object in PDF

  20. Prospective Further Developments • Open Source • Support of SCORM • Output to Mobile Devices • Support of MathML • LaTeX to XML • Hermes Project: http://alphaserv3.aei.mpg.de/hermes/ • Inclusion of interactive exercises (QTI)

  21. Summary and Current State • Properties • High quality output • High flexibility • Good extensibility • But, relatively high complexity • Several courses from different departments • Electrical Engineering, Cultural and Social Sciences, Law, Computer Science, Economics • System deployed and operated in computer centre • Public launch: end of july

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